State v. Burling’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 152 Wis. 2d 113 - State v. McManus (1989), State v. Baue (2000)
68 state decisions — followed in 11 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Borchardt · 110 Ill. App. 3d 46 - People v. Buford · State v. Bjornsen · State v. Klingelhoefer · 1 Haw. App. 44 - State v. Boehmer
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or be in the actual physical control of any motor vehicle: (a) While under the influence of alcoholic liquor or of any drug; (c) When such person has a concentration of ten-hundredths of one gram or more by weight of alcohol per two hundred ten liters of his or her breath.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Legislature may not declare the weight to be given evidence or what evidence shall be conclusive proof of an issue of fact; ... that is to say, determining whether evidence is of probative value is a legal question, and the legislature cannot impair judicial analysis and resolution of such questions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As used in § 39-669.07, the phrase `under the influence of alcoholic liquor' means after the ingestion of alcohol in an amount sufficient to impair to any appreciable degree the ability to operate a motor vehicle in a prudent and cautious manner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Tanner
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.